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Subject: Kristof and the Corporations' AHRQ.gov
Date: Nov 5, 2009 7:38 AM
One word:
http://www.ahrq.gov/about/council.htm
The Bigs ^^^ run the show.
Checkem out, do. The whole thing is
run by Kool-Aid Addicts ("Masters of
Public Health"), and the Bigs who wrote
the MPH degree programs.
That's why we got a "vaccine" that
was the key to (Cause Known) nearly
all chronic and fatal diseases (except
diabetes):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=link&linkname=pubmed_pubmed&uid=19025640&ordinalpos=1&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed
Here, ^^ Don't let me tellya aboudit.
Read aboudit in MedLine.
AHRQ.gov proposed a law where, under oath,
in a malpractice lawsuit, any "medical expert"
had to recite ONLY what the "guidelines" were,
and were not going to be allowed to actually state
what was their own, actual medical opinion.
Big Insurance wants to totally *OWN* all diseases.
They currently *OWN* all diseases, as shown by
Kaiser-Permanente's role in the ALDF.com.
What that means is that you can very well
get any deadly disease (ALS, MS, arthritis-
and-blocked-arteries, Tb, Cancer...), from a
tick bite or mycoplasmal, mycobacterial infection
(like from inhaling in a moldy house), but because
the detection of infections is not allowed
by BigInsurance, you're dead.
Dead people file no claims, and disabled
people are declared psychiatric by BigIns,
which means Uncle Sam picks up the tab, all
around: Income, Medicine.
None of that is an exaggeration; this is all
the science, and is the reason Yale and UConn
were totally de-funded over the past 2 years:
http://www.actionlyme.org/Pam3Cys_Version15.htm
Oh, Tufts got a measly $1.7 million recently to
re-perform the Mouse Infectivity Test:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC105309/?tool=pubmed
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
===========================http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/opinion/05kristof.html
November 5, 2009
Op-Ed Columnist
Unhealthy America
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
The moment of truth for health care is at hand, and the distortion
that perhaps gets the most traction is this:
We have the greatest health care system in the world. Sure, it has
flaws, but it saves lives in ways that other countries can only dream
of. Abroad, people sit on waiting lists for months, so why should we
squander billions of dollars to mess with a system that is the envy of
the world? As Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama puts it, President
Obama’s plans amount to “the first step in destroying the best health
care system the world has ever known.”
That self-aggrandizing delusion may be the single greatest myth in the
health care debate. In fact, America’s health care system is worse
than Slov—er, oops, more on that later.
The United States ranks 31st in life expectancy (tied with Kuwait and
Chile), according to the latest World Health Organization figures. We
rank 37th in infant mortality (partly because of many premature
births) and 34th in maternal mortality. A child in the United States
is two-and-a-half times as likely to die by age 5 as in Singapore or
Sweden, and an American woman is 11 times as likely to die in
childbirth as a woman in Ireland.
Canadians live longer than Americans do after kidney transplants and
after dialysis, and that may be typical of cross-border differences.
One review examined 10 studies of how the American and Canadian
systems dealt with various medical issues. The United States did
better in two, Canada did better in five and in three they were
similar or it was difficult to determine.
Yet another study, cited in a recent report by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and the Urban Institute, looked at how well 19 developed
countries succeeded in avoiding “preventable deaths,” such as those
where a disease could be cured or forestalled. What Senator Shelby
called “the best health care system” ranked in last place.
The figures are even worse for members of minority groups. An African-
American in New Orleans has a shorter life expectancy than the average
person in Vietnam or Honduras.
I regularly receive heartbreaking e-mails from readers simultaneously
combating the predations of disease and insurers. One correspondent,
Linda, told me how she had been diagnosed earlier this year with
abdominal and bladder cancer — leading to battles with her insurance
company.
“I will never forget standing outside the chemo treatment room knowing
that the medication needed to save my life was only a few feet away,
but that because I had private insurance it wasn’t available to me,”
Linda wrote. “I read a comment from someone saying that they didn’t
want a faceless government bureaucrat deciding if they would or would
not get treatment. Well, a faceless bureaucrat from my private
insurance made the decision that I wouldn’t get treatment and that I
wasn’t worth saving.”
It’s true that Americans have shorter waits to see medical specialists
than in most countries, although waits in Germany are shorter than in
the United States. But citizens of other countries get longer hospital
stays and more medication than Americans do because our insurance
companies evict people from hospitals as soon as they can stagger out
of bed.
For example, in the United States, 90 percent of hernia surgery is
performed on an outpatient basis. In Britain, only 40 percent is,
according to a report by the McKinsey Global Institute.
Likewise, Americans take 10 percent fewer drugs than citizens in other
countries — but pay 118 percent more per pill that they do take,
McKinsey said.
Opponents of reform assert that the wretched statistics in the United
States are simply a consequence of unhealthy lifestyles and a diverse
population with pockets of poverty. It’s true that America suffers
more from obesity than other countries. But McKinsey found that over
all, the disease burden in Europe is higher than in the United States,
probably because Americans smoke less and because the American
population is younger.
Moreover, there is one American health statistic that is strikingly
above average: life expectancy for Americans who have already reached
the age of 65. At that point, they can expect to live longer than the
average in industrialized countries. That’s because Americans above
age 65 actually have universal health care coverage: Medicare.
Suddenly, a diverse population with pockets of poverty is no longer
such a drawback.
That brings me to an apology.
In several columns, I’ve noted indignantly that we have worse health
statistics than Slovenia. For example, I noted that an American child
is twice as likely to die in its first year as a Slovenian child. The
tone — worse than Slovenia! — gravely offended Slovenians. They resent
having their fine universal health coverage compared with the
notoriously dysfunctional American system.
As far as I can tell, every Slovenian has written to me. Twice. So, to
all you Slovenians, I apologize profusely for the invidious comparison
of our health systems. Yet I still don’t see anything wrong with us
Americans aspiring for health care every bit as good as yours.
•
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